Chapter 16 Viewing Flowers in the Fog
After going down the mountain, the town at the foot of the mountain is Haotang Town. The town is not big, with about a hundred families and only one old street. Since it is a major transportation road, most people in the town make a living by operating food and accommodation. There are many inns and restaurants with various time-honored brands. The ancestral home of Liang Guogong Lan Yu is twenty miles south of this place. It is a large manor with a vast area, and Li Shanchang's ancestral residence is not far from here.
Five hundred steps away from the entrance of the town, there is a lonely inn. The name is a bit strange, called 'My Inn', close to the roadside. At this time, it was dark. As soon as Li Wei walked to this inn, Zhang Erhu shouted at the door: "Fifth Brother, here! Here!"
"Why don't you go to the town here?" Li Wei felt uneasy when he saw the inn standing alone in the wilderness.
"The bridge on the river ahead was broken. It is said that the county will not be able to send people to repair it after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. We will temporarily rely on the ferry, but the ferry boat will not leave at night and can only wait for tomorrow."
"When did the bridge break?" Li Wei was walking to the inn gate and suddenly turned around and asked.
"Three days ago, the reason was unknown, and the shopkeeper said it was caused by disrepair."
‘Why is this coincidence?’ Li Wei was thinking to himself.
"Your Majesty invites you to come in quickly. The shop has hot meals and spicy soup, as well as hot foot wash water and clean quilts, so you can't leave if you stay." The shopkeeper ran out enthusiastically and pulled Li Weizheng to the store. There were still several officials sitting in the store. They had to wait until they came to decide not to stay in the store.
"Okay! Let's live here." Li Wei was taking out the official article and handing it to Zhang Erhu, "Go and register!"
When you go out, ordinary people must have road guides when staying in a hotel. Similar to today's "pass" and other "pass" are issued by the county. However, officials need official documents when going out for official duties. Inns accommodate people who have no road guides. Once seized by the government, they will be severely punished.
When he was out, it was usually Zhang Erhu's business to arrange food and accommodation. He walked to the counter, took out the official documents and threw them to the shopkeeper and ordered: "Prepare six dishes and one soup first, three meats and three vegetables. We will stay here tonight, and we can prepare a single room for the room, and the rest will be one room for two."
The procedures were complete, and the shopkeeper became more enthusiastic. "Okay! Six people are invited to the canteen next to rest, and the meal will come immediately."
Everyone came to the canteen to sit down, and the food was brought up soon. Everyone was a little hungry, and they lowered their heads and started eating like a wind and clouds. But not long after eating, a sudden sound of horse hooves came from outside the gate, and then the door of the store was knocked open with a 'bang!'. Someone shouted: "Where are your shopkeepers? Why don't you get out for me?"
"Yu Ping, don't be so panic, keep calm." A calm voice next to him stopped his roar.
Li Wei was just hearing the sound that it seemed like Gao Yiqing, why did he come here to stay here? Li Wei was just thinking of the broken bridge and felt uneasy. He put down his bowl and walked quickly to the door, looking out through the crack of the door, but the scene in the lobby was shocked.
I saw that more than a dozen slightly injured guards on the top of the mountain were all dark and foaming at the mouth. They were carried by other servants. It seemed that they were no longer able to do so. The assassin's blade was poisonous, but it was not them who killed him, but Gao Yiqing. His face was extremely pale and his forehead was covered with sweat. He seemed to have been poisoned, but it was different from the poison in the guards, and the poison was much slower.
"My uncles, do you want to stay in a hotel, too?" The inn shopkeeper walked over tremblingly.
"Stop talking nonsense, prepare hot water for me quickly. The more the better. Then order someone to go to the town to hire a doctor." The guard's eyes almost turned red with anxiety.
The shopkeeper looked puzzled, "But the bridge ahead was broken, and there was no ferry at night, so I couldn't go to the town..."
Before he finished speaking, the chief guard suddenly roared and kicked him down. The shopkeeper was so scared that he ran away. The chief guard suddenly turned around and said to Gao Yiqing: "I must go to Yingwu Guard to ask for help immediately, please allow the master."
"Rareless! I have said that this is not allowed to alarm anyone in the government." Gao Yiqing flatly rejected his request. He suddenly coughed, covered his mouth and blood oozed out of his fingers.
The head guard's eyes were so anxious that his eyes were red, as if blood was about to drip. He knelt down and cried, "Your Highness, what about the people of the world if something happens to you?"
Behind the door, Li Weizheng's heart almost stopped beating. He suddenly knew who Gao Yiqing was. Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son, Zhu Biao, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, was silent in the lobby. Gao Yiqing slowly took out a handkerchief, wiped the blood from his mouth, and said lightly: "It's useless to find Yingwuwei. I have been sick for many years and I can't die."
He turned around and said to everyone, "Okay, everyone should treat the poisoned brothers quickly, and don't waste time for me anymore."
Li Wei was slowly standing up straight, feeling confused, and he actually met the prince Zhu Biao. What should he do? What he thought after coming to the Ming Dynasty was all about King Yan Zhu Di, but fate coincided with him, but he met the prince Zhu Biao. For a moment, he was at a loss.
He turned around and wanted to leave, but his feet accidentally touched the door bar standing by the wall. With a 'bang', the door bar fell heavily to the ground. Gao Yiqing in the lobby turned around and swept towards him with a sharp look, "Who is in the room!"
As soon as he finished speaking, three close servants rushed over like lightning, kicked open the door, and slashed Li Weizheng's neck with a knife. The sword was extremely fast, and Li Wei was in a slight look at it.
"Stop!" Gao Yiqing shouted in a deep voice. He walked up to glance at Li Weizheng, and suddenly smiled slightly and said, "Where is no place in life? We meet again."
"I'm sorry, I seem to hear something I shouldn't know." Li Weizheng smiled bitterly, and it was no point in continuing to pretend to be stupid.
"It's nothing. This is Fengyang, Zhongdu. It is extremely normal to meet royal relatives. If you are a toll, you will have more opportunities." Gao Yiqing was very tired. He waved his hand and said, "Captain Li, go and rest!"
"Your Highness, please rest early, too." Li Weizheng bowed and walked quickly.
"Captain Li." Gao Yiqing suddenly called him again. He looked at Li Weizheng deeply, "Please keep it confidential today."
"Your Highness, please rest assured. For others and myself, Li Weizheng will not mention this matter again." Li Weizheng smiled slightly and took his men down.
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Gao Yiqing had many followers and wanted to rescue the poisoned guards. There were not so many empty rooms in the inn. Li Weizheng ordered his subordinates to give up two rooms. He and Zhang Erhu and Jia Laoliu were crowded in a room. In the room, Zhang Erhu and Jia Laoliu were drinking and chatting. Li Weizheng was sitting alone under the light and was stunned. He was thinking about the assassination during the day. Who had such a big deal to gather more than 100 people to assassinate the current crown prince in Fengyang Mansion. Here, the Jinyiwei was densely packed, but he could act calmly under their noses without being noticed. This shows that the methods behind the scenes were extraordinary.
Of course, Chizhou Feishu must be one of the assassins. The person behind the scenes did not use his own people, but used the thieves and thieves to do this case. Even if all these assassins were arrested, they would not know the real person behind the scenes. This shows that the person behind the scenes was thorough and meticulous in preparation, and made a long-term arrangement for the assassination of the prince.
But there is one thing that Li Weizheng can't understand, that is, the assassination method seems a bit stupid. If the prince is on a formal tour, he will inevitably be surrounded by thousands of troops and guarding him. More than 100 assassins are not allowed to be close at all. But if the prince is visiting in a private manner, he will only send a person with high martial arts skills, either lie in the grass or pretend to be in the market, hide a sharp weapon, temper it with poison, see the opportunity, and hit it with one blow, but the person behind the scenes sent more than 100 people, but they did not succeed and suffered more than 100 people. They failed to succeed and failed. It can be said that their failure in assassination today is because of this. With the thoughts of the person behind the scenes, they should not make this low-level mistake.
If the person behind the scenes really makes an intentional arrangement, what is his purpose? Could it be that he has other intentions?
Unlike the news blocking in the Ming Dynasty, Li Wei was living in the Internet era, which allowed him to be exposed to a large amount of information. He was reborn hundreds of years ago. These information accumulated in his memory became an experience, a knowledge accumulation that was hundreds of years ahead of this era, which gave him an extraordinary sensitivity. In the 23rd year of Hongwu, Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang, Lan Yu's hometown, Prince Zhu Biao, and more than 100 assassins. Several clues were intertwined, making him seem to have seen something faintly, but he couldn't see it clearly, just like watching flowers through the fog.
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Chapter completed!